In life you either cry, laugh, love or succumb to raging nationalism.
Or, in case of Japan, sparkle
and whatever the Kuwaitis think the pin 📍 emoji means
Awesoma powa! Disrespectful to dirt!
Shout out to all the tiny islands who apparently do nothing but send their own flag to each other all day. We see you lite buddies.
I don’t think I have ever sent a flag. So it’s wild to me.
Poland’s most used emoji being Ukrainian flag is kinda hilarious.
🇵🇱🇺🇦♥️
Data was likely sourced during the war, and Poland is one of the most vocal supporters of Ukraine (in part because they fear they might be next)
Japan has the only semi-interesting one.
Kuwait has something unique too 📍
And Laos 🥰
Reminder that “national boundaries with mercator projection” maps are, while on the surface interesting, on a meaningful enough level are less useful due to sheer degree of variance. Small (sized) countries get buried to thr point of not being visible, while large (populated) countries get over-generalised to the point of meaninglessness.
I want to know why Trinidad, indonesia, Uruguay and Chile have 🤣 where as most of the world does 😂
It’s the italicized version
I can’t believe there’s no 💀
Where pakistan 🇵🇰
Cuntry
On Twitter …
How’d they find out the north Korea one?
This graph was made from geotagged tweets.
Presumably that’s why the flags are so popular as well, I doubt Belgians are sending Belgian flags to one another in the DM’s. Or maybe they do, I wouldn’t know.
I was thinking this exact thing.
Yeah far right nationalism definitely is a thing but I don’t remember ever seeing someone texting the flag and I know quite a few nationalists.
😂 is the most used emoji in England, Wales, and Scotland. In Northern Ireland it’s ♥️ yet this is also the most used in the UK. So either the data is wrong or Northern Ireland is pumping those numbers UP.
